On 07/31/2013 03:25 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 31/07/2013 09:48, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> I want to become a dev, what's my next step? There is none. Help out, >> and maybe someone will notice you? Ok, I'm on it. Been doing it for >> years, and I know several other people in the same situation. It doesn't >> work, and recruitment numbers are plummeting. >> >> There needs to be an explicit, documented process. > I agree, it's not really concrete. > > Which projects/areas are you usually involved in? >
I'm not heavily involved in any one project. I proxy maintain, * net-dns/djbdns * net-dns/rbldnsd I wrote at least three programs that are in the tree whose maintenance I would be happy to take over: * xfce-extra/xfce4-hdaps * sys-apps/apply-default-acl * app-emacs/nagios-mode In sunrise, I have, * app-antivirus/clamav-unofficial-sigs * net-mail/amavis-logwatch * net-mail/postfix-logwatch Lately I've been submitting things to the gentoo-haskell overlay. Most haskell ebuilds can be generated automatically, so this is simply a matter of running hackport merge <program>, and sending a pull request. Another program I wrote lives in the overlay: * net-misc/hath And I would be happy to maintain a number of Haskell libraries that I use in my day-to-day-development (mostly numerical stuff and deps of my programs). In my personal overlay, there are a few more packages: * app-emacs/vbnet-mode * app-emacs/visual-basic-mode (bug #445370) There are a few minor bugs in my bugzilla list that I could easily take care of. Long-term, I have a professional interest in fixing mpm-itk in apache-2.4.x.
